EN-EL12 Rechargeable Battery

I have gone through two of these batteries in less than a year. They are not too cheap either. So i recommend a different camera that uses a different battery.

Just bought the camera for 3 months. battery no power suddenly and needed to recharge for hours

I just bought a 6200 coolpix and with a new and fully charged EN-EL12 battery and took it to my nieces graduation from college after 34 shots it was dead and I missed out on half a days shooting,shots I can never get again.I can´t believe Nikon can expect customers to be satisfied with that kind of performance.
I should have stayed with my old Minolta instead of ´´upgrading´´for this event.

I recently bought the aw100 camera and I think that he battery like is much shorter that other cameras that I have used. I want to buy additional batteries but how come I can´t purchase them from your site???

OK so I bought the S6100 in August prior to our son´s wedding and with some level of effort (due to ´´touchy´´ LCD touch controls) got some nice pictures and video. The charging seemed a little weird out of the box, the first time seemed to provide limited capacity but the second time seemed fine. We used it intermittently after the wedding with a surge around the holidays and then didn´t need it - so it sat in the house, waiting.

I picked it back up two days ago and nothing. So I read. To charge the battery, plug in the USB charger and turn the camera on to start charging. Nothing. I check the voltage on the battery and its zero.

So if you need to turn the camera on to start charging, but the battery is too low to turn the camera on, then you have lovely Lithium Ion paper weight and a camera that needs another $37.50 infusion to allow it to work.

To the Nikon engineers - you get an absolutely pathetic score for designing in a problem of this magnitude. I´m sure marketing loves the idea of designed-in obsolescence and the recurring battery sales, but you have certainly lost all of my respect for quality design.

I use the EN-EL12 in a Coolpix S8200. I have to agree, the in camera charging is a bad idea. Even if you buy an extra battery, you have to leave your camera in your room to charge the extra battery, so unless you carry 2 cameras on vacation, you are going to miss photo ops. What is even worse, it that the indicator will show full for 75 pictures and 2 pictures later it will shutdown because the battery is dead.
Another problem is that the camera doesn´t recognize a usb charger other than its own. I have a Belkin usb charger and the camera ignores it and the charging light doesn´t come on.
All that being said, the S8200 takes amazing pictures so I am living with the power shortcomings..

I just bought the Nikon CoolPix S6200, and it came with this awful battery EN-EL12, that has 1050mAh and 3.7V and is a Lithium Ion Battery.

I fully recharged the battery, and wanted to use it at Christmas to video the Christmas play.
So set the camera to video, and guess what,............
the camera indicated - BATTERY DEPLETED - NOT ABLE TO VIDEO.
A brand new camera and battery.
I wish I had taken my other Kodak camera with me, then at least I would have been able
to video the Christmas play.

So I have nothing. Back home I turned the camera on again, and ...........
found out that I could have taken photo´s, it was just the video that was not possible.
So, battery is great for photo´s but useless for video´s.
I agree with the other review, that I think this battery has a factory fault.

I have found that there is another battery, that has 1400mAh, but it is not a original Nikon.

Just got my new camera. Really easy to pick it up and get great results right out of the box. (i use a D300 for my larger projects). The S9100 is great to have around for those grab shots where you´d like more creative control than a camera-phone would give.

But why cant i get extra batteries for it here online? I can buy the charger here online! So....? Seems crazy that i cant get both!! Offer them in the online store please!!! Camera: 5 stars. Online store: 2 stars

i love the camera, but battery is really bad. camera can´t be left on at all. i was shocked at christmas when battery was ´´expired´´ after NO time. is there not a more powerful battery i can buy?